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It really isn't that difficult.
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Certainty and Documentation are proof.
Originally Posted by biomed1
My opinion - assuming I’m still allowed to have those - is that this is functionally equivalent to saying eccie’s rules against multiple handles will rarely be enforced due to how ridiculously easy it is to circumvent detection. Nearly everyone knows that they can avoid being caught merely by (1) using a different device for each handle and never logging into that device with any other handle and (2) not making silly mistakes like posting from one handle and using a signature (or some other identifying characteristic) from another handle. Meanwhile, evidence that Stevie Wonder could see at midnight is ignored. Hence, a single person is free to run all the handles they want as long as they are willing to get and exclusively use a different device for each one, and eccie staff can shrug it off by saying “there is no proof” when the ironclad proof they require is all but impossible to obtain, and I’ve come to believe that is by design.
One need only look to other forums (Austin, Dallas, Upstate NY, etc) to see that there is wild inconsistency between areas in how the rules are enforced, and what the moderators think the rules even mean. Threads that wouldn’t last a day here go on forever in other areas. Clearly staff are given free reign to apply the guidelines as they see fit, yet for this one there’s an “our hands are tied” concept at work, with seemingly no room for moderator judgment. That’s what we’re told anyway. Like many things about eccie rule enforcement, it seems inconsistent. It seems to strain credibility that an area’s moderator has freedom to arbitrarily interpret and enforce all other rules, but not this one.